How we design zero-waste gardens

Gardens are green, and gardens bring nature to your door. But does that mean they’re eco-friendly?

Redesigning your garden has the potential to create serious waste and carbon emissions. Buying new materials, sending old materials to landfill, using heavy machinery and removing important nature sanctuaries – like old trees – can be hugely destructive.

So we do it differently.

Five ways we design no-waste gardens

1 – Sustainability starts at the design stage. We never include new materials that can’t be recycled, like plastic decking or astroturf.

2 – We reuse or give away unwanted elements of the original garden. That could mean crushing old concrete to use as substrate, or building bug hotels from biodegradable waste.

3 – We embrace the dips and bumps in your garden. Level changes are brilliant opportunities to create beautifully varied planting, so we don’t flatten them using heavy machinery.

4 – We make the garden as permeable as possible, so water runoff doesn’t cause flooding. We guide water to where it’s needed in the garden, keeping your plants happy, and taking pressure off local drains and roads.

5 – We always choose the right plant for the spot. This means they will thrive naturally without fertilisers or other expensive treatments. It’s cheaper, easier and better for the plant.